The Roxburghe ballads . rds ;But the Cut-purses they do bite and run away, but those I suppose are Ill-Birds. For a Penny you may zee a fine Puppet-play, and for two-pence a rare work of Art;And a penny a cann; I dare swear, a man may put zix of em into a Quart. Their zights are so rich, is able to bewitch the heart of a very fine man-a;Heres 1atient Grisel here, and Fair Rosamond there, and the History of Susanna. At Pye-corner end, mark well my good Friend, tis a very fine dirty place,Where theres more Arrows and Bows, the Lord above knows, than was handled at every door [wait
The Roxburghe ballads . rds ;But the Cut-purses they do bite and run away, but those I suppose are Ill-Birds. For a Penny you may zee a fine Puppet-play, and for two-pence a rare work of Art;And a penny a cann; I dare swear, a man may put zix of em into a Quart. Their zights are so rich, is able to bewitch the heart of a very fine man-a;Heres 1atient Grisel here, and Fair Rosamond there, and the History of Susanna. At Pye-corner end, mark well my good Friend, tis a very fine dirty place,Where theres more Arrows and Bows, the Lord above knows, than was handled at every door [waits] a Hag or [a sc]ore, and in Hosier-lane, if I ant mistaken,Zuch plenty there are, of w — es, youll have a pair, to a single Gammon of Bacon. Then at Smithfield-Bars, twixt the ground and the stars, theres a place they call Shoe-makers-Row,Where you may buy Shoes every day, or go bare-foot all the year I trow. jFints. I 228 Cbc (Unfortunate *Lot>ct% My Love sleeps on another mans pillow.—The Willow Green [This woodcut belongs to pp. 175, 204, 229, etc.] Merry-Andrew of this hallad would find Joan return to him— how if she were the very identical Joan of our p. 162, who told a John toRock the Cradle? Did she (finding that a faux pas on her part had notspoilt Merry-Andrews confidence in her affection and trustworthiness) throwaway such a devoted and easy lover, and go off to find another in the aforesaidJohn ? Were there actually two such easy men in the nation simultaneously ?It is a queer world, and anything is credible. But supposing that John hadbeen generally known as Merry-Andrew, are we re-uniting the scattered links ofthe chain ? Dates are against the supposition, 1636 and 1670-76 : forty years !%* We have no wish to press hard judicially on any Joan of the lot. In suchcases of doubtful parentage there are always Two Knaves and a Fool. [Bythe way : a certain admirer of Jean Middlemasss novel, thus named, ought notto have asked for it so
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